Trough.



W. J. VERTREES.

TROUGH.

APPLICATION FILED DEG.1Z, 1911.

1,076,724. Pate11ted0ct.28,1913.

WILLIAM J. VER'I'REES, OF BUSHNELL, ILLINOIS.

THOUGH.

roaster.

Specification of Letters Patent. Application filedDecember 12, 1911.

Serial No. 665,303.

To all whom @725 may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM J. VER- TREES, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Bushnell, in the county of McDonough and State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Troughs,of which the following is a specification;

This invention relates to improvements in the feed trough disclosed inPatent No. 906396, dated December 8, 1908, and its object is to providea trough of greater strength and rigidity, and also one which islighter, and which can be more cheaply manufactured. With these objectsin View, the invention consists in a novel construction and arrangementof parts to be hereinafter described and classed.

In the accompanying drawing, forming apart of thisspecification', Figurel is a perspective of a trough constructed in accordance with thepresent invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section, and Fig. 3 is across-section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

Referring specifically to the drawing, 5 denotes the body portion of thetrough, the same being formed of a plate of suitable sheet met-a1 whichis bentinto semi-cylindrical form, and has outwardly extendinglongitudinal flanges 6 at its top. lhe end .walls of the trough arerectangular sheet metal plates 7 having their inner sides formed with asemi-cylindrical groove or de pression 8 in which the ends of the bodyportion 5 seat. At the bottom of the end walls 7 are outstandinghorizontal flanges 9 forming supporting feet for the trough. At the topof the end walls are inturned horizontal flanges 10, which overlap theend portions of the flanges 6, and are riveted or otherwise securedthereto as indicated at 11. At the vertical edges of the end walls thematerial is folded back upon itself as indicated at 12 to stiflen saidwalls.

Tongues 13 are punched up'trom the end walls 7 close to the groove 8.These tongues are so located that they lie outside the body portion 5 ofthe trough, and they are bent out from the end Walls and passed throughslits let in the body portion 5, adjacent to the ends thereof, andclenched or folded back against the inner surface of the latter. By thismethod the end walls aresecurely fastened to the body portion of thetrough, and in order to obtain a Water-tight joint between the parts,the contacting portions of the trough body and the end walls aresoldered, and the exposed ends of the tongues are also embedded insolder.

By arranging and assembling the parts as herein described, a trough ishad which can be cheaply manufactured, and a strong and rigid structureis produced which will stand rough usage. The flanges 6 may also beconnected by a transverse brace 15 which is located midway between theends or the trough.

I claim:

A trough comprising a body portion having slits adjacent toits ends, endwalls having grooves in their inner faces in which grooves the ends ofthe body portion seat, and tongues punched out of the end Walls outsideof the grooves, said tongues projecting from the inner side of the endwalls and extending along the outer surface of the body portion at theends thereof, the free ends of the tongues passing through the slits ofsaid body portion and being clenched on the inside thereof.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

WILLIAM J, VERTREES. Witnesses GERALD A. Tir'ron, N. R. MARTIN.

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